By KBarton10 on Apr 18, 2008 in environment, fishing, science | 4 Comments
Fisheries research suggest the older mature fish should be released and angling regulations changed to allow only young fish be taken. Maturity is necessary to fish populations - and youth is less so. Makes us old guys feel good, but college cheerleaders won’t change their preference anytime soon.
By KBarton10 on Apr 12, 2008 in environment, science | 0 Comments
I figured carp and bass would still be plentiful and assumed I could move to Canada before they close the borders.
We’ve known the Cockroach is a survivor, and now it’ll have company - as the CO2 enriched atmosphere is building a Poison Ivy superstrain.
New research shows the rash-inducing plant appears to be growing faster [...]
By KBarton10 on Apr 1, 2008 in Fly Fishing, current events, science | 4 Comments
Another exotic venue to add to your list as the rarest of all trout will debut next year in Dubai. Genetically engineered to thrive in higher water temperatures, the “Asfar Trout” (Yellow Trout) will be featured on the two community islands of The World, and also the freshwater lagoon of the new Dreamworks theme park, which broke ground [...]
By KBarton10 on Mar 27, 2008 in Youtube, science | 5 Comments
Science gone awry, now it’s torch and pitchfork time…
I yawned at the stem cell debate and didn’t blink at the prospect of genetic manipulation of crops, but Pavlovian fish sounds like something worth firebombing a clinic or two. Fish taught to swim into a net when a tone is sounded - it’s every guide’s dream [...]
By KBarton10 on Mar 24, 2008 in Opinions & Rants, commentary, current events, science | 2 Comments
We ate all the big stuff, most of the medium sized stuff, and we’re working on the small stuff now. Next comes the really small stuff, those critters so important to the food chain that their absence upsets the entire apple cart.
West coast salmon virtually collapsed this year despite our best lip service, we [...]
By KBarton10 on Mar 15, 2008 in science | 2 Comments
It’s like realizing the President of the United States is standing next to you - as you struggle to pull your hands out of your pockets to shake his hand, the suddenness of it all disengages your frontal lobe..
When you wake up in jail, and they remove the Secret Service arsenal from your various orifices [...]
By KBarton10 on Mar 11, 2008 in environment, science | 2 Comments
I go to the doctor with assorted ailments and he prescribes I eat a carp a day and call him in the morning?
It’s a familiar theme that we touched on before - but as more evidence appears in the press, we might want to cut the big drug companies out of the mix - [...]
By KBarton10 on Mar 10, 2008 in current events, entomology, science | 31 Comments
How’s your entomology? The 50 million year old mayfly likely needs to be keyed to genus and species.
..or you can take the shortcut, and hope no one notices you might have bent the rules a bit..
An Islamic text entitled “The Atlas of Creation” has created quite a stir, it purports to show Darwinism doesn’t [...]
By KBarton10 on Feb 23, 2008 in science | 0 Comments
You cut most of your science classes in high school, I’m just paying you back for them misdeeds.
It’ll be plenty expensive, you’ll insist you need them, and when you find out what it’s made from - you’ll rethink the whole “Brownline” genre.
Scientists have developed a self sealing rubber that can be torn, severed and [...]
By KBarton10 on Feb 2, 2008 in science | 2 Comments
Every father will resolve to take their kid fishing, spinach will end it’s run as the worst possible food Mom can serve, Tuna fish is going to be in every middle school lunch pail, and sardines will resume their rightful place on supermarket shelves.
Fantasy? Not likely, every youngster caught with a girlie mag, or [...]